{"id":47774,"date":"2021-05-18T05:28:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T02:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=47774"},"modified":"2021-05-18T05:28:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T02:28:44","slug":"lovecraft-as-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/05\/18\/lovecraft-as-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft as cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stjoshi.org\/news.html\">S. T. Joshi&#8217;s Blog<\/a> has updated. Lovecraft&#8217;s letters to Long are finally safely in the scanning-vaults at Brown University, and Joshi tentatively places a 2024 date on the paperback.<\/p>\n<p>He also notes several foreign language publications, including <em>Lovecraft, l&#8217;Arabe, l&#8217;horreur<\/em>, a French book of 90 pages. In this a historian considers &#8220;The Orient and Islam and the Gentleman of Providence&#8221;. According to the blurb this finds that Lovecraft&#8230; &#8220;is neither hostile to Islam nor contemptuous of Arab-Muslim culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also a slimmer booklet of just 58-pages from the same publisher, <em>Lovecraft: sous le signe du chat<\/em>. On looking into this I learn that the author apparently muses on the notion that&#8230; &#8220;cats are at the centre of Lovecraft&#8217;s life, philosophy and literary work&#8221;. And indeed that Lovecraft himself could be understood as becoming ever more cat-like during his life. H.P. Lovecat, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Both together might make for a viable double-bill English translation in one volume?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S. T. Joshi&#8217;s Blog has updated. Lovecraft&#8217;s letters to Long are finally safely in the scanning-vaults at Brown University, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/05\/18\/lovecraft-as-cat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kittee-tuesday","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}